I think, write and teach about various topics, whose common thread might be the idea that light and beauty can be found in unexpected corners, and that, vice versa, even the most luminous aspects of human experience conceal darkness and flaws. Less cryptically (and fairly simplistically), I defend the views that genuine envy can be good; that true love can be unrequited; that "deformed" bodies can be beautiful.

My main current project is a book, in which I defend a novel taxonomy of envy and show the taxonomy's implications in ethics, politics and aesthetics. For an updated list of my publications, see my research page (for penultimate drafts of them, you can check out my philpapers page). For drafts of my works in progress, please email me.